Security camera footage recorded at a Worcester market shows a man lighting a trash bin on fire last week.

Firefighters fought a string of trash bin fires Tuesday night, including a fire in a bin outside the ABC Market on Granite Street.

The owner of the market, who said he was alerted to the fire by the Fire Department the night of the fire, checked his store's security camera footage the next morning.

The cameras recorded a vehicle pulling up to the ABC Market trash bin. Two people inside the vehicle appear to light something inside the vehicle before exiting. The driver is seen tossing the flaming object into the trash bin, and a passenger is seen heading off camera with another flaming object. The two people then return to the vehicle and drive off.

The owner of the store, who did not want to be identified, said he alerted a Worcester police officer who frequents his store of the video and an officer later retrieved a copy of it.

The trash bin fire at the ABC Market was one of a rash of dumpster fires in Worcester last week. Others were at at Standard Auto Wrecking at 257 Granite St., another location on Granite Street and two trash containers at Holy Name High School.

Earlier this month firefighters went to Kansas Street and Pitt Street, where a vehicle, a dumpster and pallets were on fire outside local businesses. The weekend before, firefighters battled dumpster fires in the Lincoln Plaza and Stop & Shop Plaza areas.

Brian Sampson, 26, of 38 Siani Road, Leicester, was arrested in connection with the Standard Auto Wrecking fire and the ABC Market fire and authorities are looking for one other suspect. Sampson was charged with four counts of willful and malicious destruction of property and arson. A dangerousness hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, police said.

Police are also looking for another suspect, John Shyllberg, 29, address unknown.

Police did not link Mr. Sampson and Mr. Shyllberg to additional dumpster fires in that area Tuesday night, and did not tie them to a three-alarm blaze that destroyed the warehouse and distribution building at Gibson's Dairy Farm on Sunderland Road, which is not far from Granite Street.

However, they said they continue to investigate whether the pair is responsible for other dumpster fires in the area.

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